Pentagon yet to sign off on longer deployment of troops on Mexican border
By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times - Monday, December 3, 2018
Defense Secretary James Mattis has yet to approve a Department of Homeland Security request to extend the deployments of U.S. troops on the southern border into next year, pending a military review of the request.
The request, sent over to the Pentagon late last week, seeks to keep roughly 4,000 active-duty troops on the U.S.-Mexico border until the end of January, to support border security operations by DHS and the Customs and Border Patrol agency. The roughly 5,700 active-duty U.S. troops ordered to the southern border in October were initially set to withdraw by mid-December.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/pentagon-yet-sign-longer-deployment-troops-mexican/
